"I remember seeing a TikTok dance in 2021 and thinking, This would be perfect in the rat costume.' I sent it over to my colleagues and said we had to do this because it might do really well ...

A movie theater in Methuen was forced to shut its doors last week after a customer reported seeing a rodent, prompting local health officials to launch an investigation. On Dec. 5, the Methuen ...

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO ...

The life-size robotic rat has wheels instead of legs and does not have a tail, but it does have a plastic snout, small forelimbs and the ability to scurry around and mimic rat-like postures.

Traditionally known for stuffing their cheeks with nuts, squirrels can be carnivorous — though recorded instances of the rodents hunting and killing other live vertebrates are rare, with few ...

An AMC movie theater in Methuen is temporarily closed after the city’s Department of Health, Human Services, and Inspections confirmed the presence of rodents inside the cinema, an official said.

Although his study subjects were rodents, Calhoun believed his metropolises had implications for humans: this was a cautionary tale of the chaos and social collapse in store for humanity in an ...